WABC MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) — Lord & Taylor is selling its landmark Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan to WeWork for $850 million. The flagship store is expected to continue to operate in the entire building through the 2018 holiday season, and then rent lower floors after that. The holiday displays will continue to go on this year and next year, a company spokeswoman said. … Continue reading Goodbye to another landmark: Lord & Taylor sells Fifth Avenue store

Aaron Kesel Activist Post As part of the plan to begin phasing out gas and diesel car sales over the next three decades, drivers of diesel vehicles and older petrol cars in the UK will now face a tax called T-Charge for driving into the financial district and parts of west London, Reuters reported. Drivers are already charged 11.50 pounds ($15) under a congestion charge. But those … Continue reading London Introduces Carbon “T-Charge” Tax On Diesel And Older Petrol Vehicles

Jon Rogers The Daily Express The report, by Italian left-winger Laura Agea, says the laws already exist for the European Union (EU) to take control over something which national governments have previously assumed is solely their competence. The EU’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs stops short of guaranteeing a minimum wage but so-called “minimum income schemes” would inevitably mean handing more powers to Brussels bureaucrats in … Continue reading EU plotting TOTAL DOMINATION: Brussels moves to take control of wages from member states

[insert page=’article-link’ display=’content’] Joseph Hincks TIME The Chinese government has collected tens of thousands of “voice pattern” samples from targeted citizens and is inputting them into a national voice biometric database, according to a Human Rights Watch report published Monday. The idea is that an automated system, thought to still be in development, will use the database to pick out individual voices in telephone and other conversations, … Continue reading China Is Creating a Database of Its Citizens’ Voices to Boost its Surveillance Capability: Report

The government ministers were facing a new infectious disease outbreak. The mysterious virus was sickening and killing people with alarming speed. Some patients had to be placed on ventilators to help them breathe. The new virus seemed resistant to antibiotics and antiviral medicine.

Within a week, officials had closed a major hospital and schools and quarantined thousands of people. Fear and panic spread quickly as people in neighboring countries became infected and died.